Yorktown police blotter

A 19-year-old Bronx man and two 17-year-old boys who allegedly threatened occupants of another car on Greenwood Street over the weekend weekend face misdemeanor charges of second-degree menacing, Yorktown police said.

The arrests were among several that local police made in recent weeks.

Egzon Begoli, 19, of East 128th St., New York City, was arrested May 15 around 3 a.m. along with the two 17-year-olds, whom police would not identify beyond one being from the Bronx and the other from Buchanan. The three and possibly two other suspects got out of their car on Greenwood Street around 1:30 a.m. on May 15 and allegedly threatened occupants of another car with baseball bats and a handgun, police said.

Other recent arrests include:

Police headquarters: Heather G. Licari, 31, of Fair Street, Carmel, was charged May 11 around 11:20 a.m. with second-degree burglary, a felony, stemming from an investigation into a Feb. 16 burglary in which jewelry and other items were stolen. Police did not say where the burglary took place. An investigation showed that some of the jewelry may have been sold at a Bronx pawn shop. Licari was charged in March by the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office with second-degree forgery and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, felonies, in connection with the theft of a credit card and use of it to buy jewelry at a Southeast store. Those charges are pending in Putnam County Court.

Locksley Drive: Eric Rocco Tutino, 29, of Yorktown was charged May 15 around 8:30 p.m. with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, stemming from an incident that evening at Mohansic Elementary School in which he allegedly punched a 15-year-old boy in the eye.
Police headquarters: Pedro J. Marrero, 25, of Rose Drive, Mahopac, was charged April 29 with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, based on a March 7 complaint from a Wood Street apartment. Marrero is accused of striking the victim in the face, breaking the person’s jaw.

Route 6: Jessica Pauline Payne, 19, of North Deerfield Avenue, Yorktown, was charged May 13 around 10 p.m. with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, a misdemeanor. She was ordered to appear in Town Court on June 15.

Route 6: Michael Fabiola Morocho, 31, of Crompond Road, Peekskill was charged May 10 around 8:30 a.m. with driving a vehicle with a suspended registration, a misdemeanor, and unlicensed operation, a violation. He was ordered to appear in Town Court on June 10.
Crompond Road: Davon D. Coke, 30, of John Street, Peekskill, was charged May 7 around 6 p.m. with driving a vehicle with a suspended registration, a misdemeanor, and having an uninsured motor vehicle, a violation. He is due in Town Court on June 8.

Police headquarters: Christopher K. Hill, 49, of Saw Mill River Road, Yorktown, appeared voluntarily at police headquarters on May 7 around 6 a.m. and was charged with second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor. The charge stemmed from his allegedly communicating with someone in violation of a court order.

Route 202: Tina Donofrio, 44, of Fox Hill Road, Mahopac, was charged May 3 around 5 p.m. with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, driving a vehicle with a suspended registration, misdemeanors, and having an uninsured motor vehicle, an infraction. She is due in Town Court on June 3.

Downing Drive: Jiliana B. Makinde, 23, of Sherman Avenue, Peekskill, was charged May 5 around 1 p.m. with petty larceny, a misdemeanor, after she conducted a fraudulent return at the Kmart department store in which tried to scam the store out of $33. She is due in Town Court on June 3. Rosa Broughal, 41, of Underhill Avenue, Yorktown, was charged May 5 around 5:40 p.m. with petty larceny after she, too, made a fraudulent return at Kmart. She’s also has a June 3 court date.

Khami Drive: Michael Maurno, 19, of Wildwood Court, Yorktown, was charged April 30 around 2 a.m. with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor. Police were investigating a report of gunshots. The Westchester County police Aviation Unit went up and spotted Maurno and several other teens in a nearby wooded area. Town officers responded and found Maurno in possession of six tablets of the painkiller Vicodin.

Hanover Road: Aaron Conetta, 24, of Paine Street, Yorktown, was charged April 30 around 11 p.m. with driving a vehicle with a suspended registration, a misdemeanor.

Bank Road: Julian Dinescu, 21, of Homestead Court, Peekskill, was charged April 30 around 7 p.m. with fifth-degree criminal possession of marijuana and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, misdemeanors. An officer stopped to investigate why his car was parked in the lot of Club Fit and found him with marijuana and a controlled substance that police did not identify.

Route 132: Joseph Fragola, 40, of Neil Avenue, the Bronx, was charged May 3 around 6:15 a.m. with indecent or vulgar conduct, a violation of the Town Code, after an officer saw him urinating in the road.

Cranberry Lane: Michael Scala, 48, of Cranberry Lane, Shrub Oak was charged May 4 around 7:30 p.m. with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, after a domestic incident.

Route 6: Nicholas Fazio, 24, of Sunnyside Street, Shrub Oak, was charged April 29 around 10:45 p.m. with driving a vehicle with a suspended registration, a misdemeanor.
Police headquarters: Anthony Bujas, 67, of Baldwin Road, Yorktown, was cited April 29 around 3 a.m. with violations of the Town Code by building without a permit and having no certificate of occupancy.

Police headquarters: Vincent Monamassa, 42, of Howard Beach, Queens, was charged May 18 around 12:20 p.m. with third-degree criminal trespass, a misdemeanor, stemming from a May 12 complaint that he entered a Beaver Drive residence without the homeowner’s permission.

Jefferson Valley Mall: Luis Mora, 37, of Oakwood Drive, Peekskill, was charged May 16 around 6 p.m. with petty larceny, a misdemeanor, after he stole a $26 pair of sunglasses from the Sears department store. He is due in Town Court on June 22.

Route 6: Keith Castro, 47, of South Broadway, Yonkers was charged May 17 around 9:15 p.m. with second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, a misdemeanor, and failure to yield the right of way, an infraction, after he pulled out of a gas station in Jefferson Valley and failed to yield to oncoming traffic.

Terry Corcoran covers the criminal justice beat in Putnam and northern Westchester counties. He previously worked at The News-Times in Danbury, and The Republican-American in Waterbury, Conn., where he won several awards for breaking news coverage. He is a graduate of Western Connecticut State University and lives in New Haven County, Conn. His hobbies include hiking, traveling and listening to rock music.